Follow big wave surfer Nathan Fletcher through the evolution of surfing and his relationship with big waves.

After growing up with his single mom, skateboarder Caleb, 18, finds his busy, rich architect dad. He contacts him, when his mom's hospitalized with cancer. He joins a skateboard competition, when rent's up.

When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too - as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.

Two skateboarding gangs battle each other for supremacy, and a member of one gang falls in love with the sister of his rival.